Dear all,
Wikimedia CH is looking for a French Community Liaison
French-Community Liaison - 50%
Reporting directly to the Chief Science Officer (CSO), the FCL works actively with the Swiss French Wikimedia community in order to support it accomplishing projects and get in touch with Wikimedia entities and officials. It helps the community by gathering requests and ideas, communicating them to all relevant parties and translating information wherever needed. This includes support to bring formal requests and motions to WMCH by helping to prepare them, translate them and present them to the board.
In the same manner the FCL communicates activities of the Wikimedia entities to the community by writing reports, blog posts and mails, translating information from WMCH to the community's language.
It's her/his responsibility to make sure the community voices are heard inside the association and that activities and communications of Wikimedia movement entities are also replicated into the communities.
The FCL will also manage outreach project like editing or photo contest.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:
*Experience in a similar position for at least 1 year;
*Fluency (speaking and writing) in English and French;
*Good computer skills (office software suite, ticketing system), comfort and familiarity with technology systems
*Familiar with online media (mailing lists, Drupal, Twitter, Facebook);
*Excellent communication skills;
*Familiar with Wikipedia / Wikimedia French speaking community, if possible active in the French speaking wikis.
This position is mainly based in our office in Lausanne, but requires to be flexible in terms of
working hours.
This is a one year renewable contract.
Dead-Line: July 15th
Candidatures
Please apply in English at info(a)wikimedia.ch or by postal mail:
Ms Anh Chung – CAO
Wikimedia CH
Escaliers-du-Marché 2
1003 Lausanne
with a cover letter, a resume and other documents such as certificates, etc. A short summary on how you imagine the job will be appreciated. Please add English translations of your resume and short summary.
Sincerely
Hiring process:
The hiring comittee is made of :
*One board member
*One or two community member(s)
*The CAO and the CSO
*One community manager
The hiring committee will make a recommandation to the Wikimedia CH board who will utlimately take the decision.
For the hiring committee,
Charles
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Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Office +41 (0)21 340 66 21
Mobile +41 (0)78 910 00 97
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Hi folks,
on July 1st 1:00 am UTC, the Toolserver accounts will be expired and the
tools which haven’t been migrated yet will stop working. More information
can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_12…
.
To get an overview, we started a collection: Do you miss any tools or have
you observed any broken redirects? Would you like to maintain a orphaned
tool? If so, please post them here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Collection_of_issues_after_Toolser…
Thank you very much!
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Birgit Müller
Team Communitys
Community Liaison
Volunteer Support Department
E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear Ms. Tretikov,
Would you please speak on the new revision of the "Access to Non-Public Information" policy? Can you express your objection to it? Can you express your support of it? You'll find it here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy
This governs the conditions by which the WMF grants access to potentially personally-identifying data such as IPs and web-browser profiles of Wikipedia editors. It grants these to particular administrative participants, for example checkusers and oversighters and arbitrators, of the various "communities," for example the Wikipedias of various languages.
Under the terms of the prior access policy, those administrative participants were required to send a fax or scanned copy of an identification document. Editors were led to believe that the WMF kept record of who these people actually were. It was repeatedly claimed that they had "identified to WMF." This soothed the concerns of editors like me that thought, okay, well at least someone knows who they are. The truth was that a WMF employee marked a chart of usernames only that the administrative participant's ID showed someone 18 or over, and then shredded or otherwise destroyed those records. The phrase that so-and-so "has identified to WMF" or "is identified to WMF" was so commonly stated, including by the WMF, that I regard it as a great deception and betrayal that it really was shredding and destroying the identifications.
The new policy is even worse. It abandons the mere pretense of an identification. So while it goes the wrong direction, at least it ceases to deceive. All it calls for now is an email address, an assertion that the person is 18 or over, and an assertion that the owner of the email account has read a short confidentiality agreement. The person need not provide a real name. You are well aware that various web-email services offer basically untraceable email addresses. You are well aware that only a named person can enter into agreement on confidentiality. An agreement by a Wikipedia username with an untraceable email address is not only unenforceable, it is a ludicrous proposition.
The webpage says the policy is not in effect yet. I urge you to reject it as written and instead have it amended to actually require identification for those faceless entities you prepare to turn loose with potentially cyberstalker tools.
Whatever your stance, I do call on you to speak on the question. Say "yea," say "nay," or say "not my concern," but at least speak.
Trillium Corsage
One of our most interesting projects, Vietnamese Wikipedia has now
passed 1 M articles and has a growth just now of almost 100k/month
They use a clever bot named Cheer!-bot to generate a lot of very good
articles. In some ways it is stronger then Lsjbot (covering more then
spececies) but I do prefer that Lsjbot marks the generated articles with
a template indicating they are botgenerated
start page: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trang_Ch%C3%ADnh
Cheer-bot! generated articles (just now working on species like Lsjbot)
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%B7c_bi%E1%BB%87t:%C4%90%C3%B3ng_…
Statistics up to April
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaVI.htm notice active
generating around one year from now
As I said a lot of times, I believe it is a weakness we are not making
use of the many excellent inititves taking place on less well known
verisons (like the lithuanian I mentioned some time ago). I am not even
sure there are any from viwp acrtive on this list.
Also I recommend you to look through the content of viwp by using the
use the Random article feature Bài vie^'t nga^~u nhiên
<https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%B7c_bi%E1%BB%87t:Ng%E1%BA%ABu_nh…>
Anders
Dear friends and colleagues,
Rod Dunican (currently the Director, Wikipedia Education Program at WMF)
has announced that he is leaving the Foundation at the end of this month.
We are truly sorry to see him go; he has been such a critical part of the
Wikipedia Education Program and strategy for many years including his
leadership of the team. We wish you the very best, Rod, and look forward to
hearing of your new adventures.
I am looking forward to working even more closely with the current
Education team: Anna Koval, Floor Koudijs and Tighe Flanagan. All three of
them have complementing skills and backgrounds, and have begun working
closely and effectively with each other and with the rest of the
Grantmaking team. With Rod, they have been working on an exciting shift in
strategy as they have moved from a more hands-on programmatic strategy to
becoming a facilitative hub in which the team supports different kinds of
local education programs. This has meant that the team has been working
with educational program leaders, volunteers and community organisers in
over 60 countries to map their education-related activities, successes and
challenges. The integration of the Wikipedia Education Program team into
the GLEE team also means valuable opportunities for the different grants
programs to work more closely to understand successful education programs
and to support them through grants and other resources. In particular, the
Education team’s focus on gender and geographic diversity as a strategy is
very much shared across the broader Grantmaking department.
As the team goes forward to develop a road map for the future with our
community members, Floor Koudijs will be the interim Senior Manager for the
Education Program. Initially the team has been assigned different parts of
the world in order to create a baseline of educational programs and
activities, with Floor responsible for Latin America and Western Europe,
Tighe for the Arab region and Africa, and Anna for Asia and Eastern Europe.
Please look at the Education portal for more details.[1]
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me, or to Floor, Tighe and Anna, for
any comments or clarifications.[2] We look forward to working in
partnership with our communities worldwide as we support education programs
in service to the Wikimedia mission.
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program
[2] Floor: fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org Tighe: tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org Anna:
akoval(a)wikimedia.org
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This is a reminder mostly for US Wikimedians and US-based WMF office
employees but also in case Wikimedians in other parts of the world want to
join us.
Wicnik, Wikimedia's annual summer picnic event, is happening again this
year. Are you signed up to participate? Bring food, sports equipment,
sunscreen, and/or your significant other(s).
So far there are Wicniks planned for these locations:
Cape Cod, Massachusetts - happened already
New York City, New York - July 6
Frederick, Maryland - July 6
Washington, DC - July 13
Detroit, Michigan - July 6
Evansville/Bloomington, Indiana - date TBD
Chicago, Illinois - July 12
St Louis, Missouri - July 6
St Paul, Minnesota - July 6
Arvada, Colorado - July 6
Seattle, Washington - July 6
San Francisco, California - July 6
Los Angeles, California - July 6
Under discussion:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
Sign up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wicnik
Pine
Hi everyone,
If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat!
Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app, now
available on Google
Play <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia>.
Our new features include:
- *Speed* – Our new, native app allows you to browse and edit Wikipedia
faster than ever before.
- *Editing* – You can edit Wikipedia on the app. Logged in or logged
out, we thank you for all your contributions.
- *Recent pages* – We provide you with your reading history, so you can
tap as many links as you like without ever getting lost.
- *Saved pages* – You can save select pages for offline reading and
browse them even when you don’t have a data connection.
- *Share* – Use your existing social networking apps to share in the sum
of all human knowledge.
- *Language support* – The app allows you to seamlessly switch to
reading Wikipedia written in any language.
- *Wikipedia Zero* – We’ve partnered with cellular carriers around the
world to provide Wikipedia free of data charges to users in many developing
areas.
Coming soon:
- *Night mode* – We’ve gotten lots of great beta user feedback; one
feature people love is reading Wikipedia in darker environments. The
inverted colour scheme offered by night mode will make that much easier.
- *Discussions* – Talk pages are an important part of Wikipedia for both
new users and experienced editors alike. We’re bringing them to the app.
This release is just the beginning! We’re still working hard on creating
new features to make the app the best Wikipedia reading and editing
experience out there.
Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list,
mobile-android-wikipedia(a)wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Erik,
(Also copying in the Cultural Partners and GLAMwiki Toolset mailing lists
as Erik's email below is directly is related to them).
Thank you for this email with the explicit invitation for groups in the
Wikimedia movement to directly take responsibility for supporting the
technology needs of GLAM partnerships. Different groups in the movement
have different capacities and different areas of priority - and that is how
it should be :-) We each need to try and 'bite off what we can chew' in a
way that is coordinated, mutually beneficial, and not a duplication of each
others' efforts.
To that end...
Over the last couple of years *Europeana*[1] has been increasingly involved
in supporting tech development for mediawiki that is specifically targeted
at addressing the needs of the GLAMwiki community. I note that the report
you linked to on the stats that GLAMs want[1] and also the GLAMwiki Toolset
for mass multimedia upload which you also mentioned[2] are both
*Europeana* projects
- in collaboration with several European Wikimedia Chapters.
On behalf of *Europeana *I would like to confirm that we wish to become
even more involved in this area and has the full intention of supporting
further development in partnership with interested Chapters when possible.
In the fullness of time, we intend to apply for a WMF grant in order to
enable precisely that.
On the mediawiki.org discussion page for the 2014/15 Engineering goals
there has been a fair bit of discussion about GLAM-related projects that
are not in the WMF's own plans[4]. Fabrice, as "process owner" for the
Multimedia section of those goals, has proposed on that talkpage a couple
of meetings of interested parties to discuss how we can all work together
effectively on this, notably in person at Wikimania, an offer which we
definitely accept :-) I also agree with Illario's point that formalising WMF
support for externally-developed software is an important criteria in any
grant decisions and for organisational reputation. Fortunately Fabrice has
specifically addressed this issue relating specifically to the GLAMwiki
Toolset which is very helpful.[5]
Sincerely,
Liam / Wittylama
GLAMWIKI coordinator, Europeana.
[1] http://pro.europeana.eu/
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia
/commons/a/a2/Report_on_requirements_for_usage_and_reuse_statistics_for_GLAM_content.
pdf
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia
_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Image_view_analytics
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#
GLAMwiki_Toolset
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
On 26 June 2014 05:54, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At the Zurich Hackathon, I met with a couple of folks from WM-CH who
> were interested in talking about ways that chapters can get involved
> in engineering/product development, similar to WM-DE's work on
> Wikidata.
>
> My recommendation to them was to consider working on GLAM-related
> tooling. This includes helping improve some of the reporting tools
> currently running in Labs (primarily developed by the illustrious and
> wonderful Magnus Manske in his spare time), but also meeting other
> requirements identified by the GLAM community [1] and potentially
> helping with the development of more complex MediaWiki-integrated
> tools like the GLAMWiki-Toolset.
>
> There's work that only WMF is well positioned to do (like feeding all
> media view data into Hadoop and providing generalized reports and
> APIs), but a lot of work in the aforementioned categories could be
> done by any chapter and could easily be scaled up from 1 to 2 to 3
> FTEs and beyond as warranted. That's because a lot of the tools are
> separate from MediaWiki, so code review and integration requirements
> are lower, and it's easier for technically proficient folks to help.
>
> In short, I think this could provide a nice on-ramp for a chapter or
> chapters to support the work of volunteers in the cultural sector with
> appropriate technology. This availability of appropriate technology is
> clearly increasingly a distinguishing factor for Wikimedia relative to
> more commercial offerings in its appeal to the cultural sector.
>
> At the same time, WMF itself doesn't currently prioritize work with
> the cultural sector very highly, which I think is appropriate given
> all the other problems we have to solve. So if this kind of work has
> to compete for attention with much more basic improvements to say the
> uploading pipeline or the editing tools, it's going to lose. Therefore
> I think having a "cultural tooling" team or teams in the larger
> movement would be appropriate.
>
> I've not heard back from WM-CH yet on this, but I also don't think
> it's an exclusive suggestion, so wanted to put the idea in people's
> heads in case other organizations in the movement want to help with
> it. I do want WMF to solve the larger infrastructure problems, but the
> more specialized tooling is likely _not_ going to be high on our
> agenda anytime soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> [1]
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Report_on_requirements_…
>
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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